> From: Aad Blok [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 16 July 2002 08:37
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> Subject: Labnet: CFP: Paths of IIntegration
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> From: leo lucassen <[log in to unmask]>
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> Call for papers
>
> Workshop on "Paths of integration: similarities and differences in
> the settlement process of immigrants in Europe, 1880-2000"
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>
> Background
>
> The integration of immigrants in the United States has interested
> migration scholars already for a century. In the 1990s an interesting
> and heated discussion emerged about the question, if and to what
> extent the 'new' post 1965 immigration to the U.S. will lead to
> similar integration and assimilation processes as in the case of the
> equally massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe between
> 1880-1920. So far this debate, admirable summarised by Nancy Foner in
> her book From Ellis Island to JFK, has had virtually no resonance in
> Europe. Although migration research in the old world across the
> disciplines has made considerable progress in the last decades, the
> canyon separating historians and social scientists working on
> migration is much deeper and communication even more sparing than in
> the American case. As most European states experienced immigration
> from the end of the 19th century onwards, however, the issues and
> questions raised in the US-debate are relevant for Europe as well and
> it is high time to organise this discussion by bringing together
> migration-specialists from both the social sciences and the
> historical discipline.
>
> By organising a well-structured workshop we aim at stimulating
> scholarly discussions on this topic and hope to deepen our
> understanding of integration processes both in the past and in the
> present. Of utmost importance is the systematic comparison of past
> and present integration processes and therefore bringing together
> historians and social scientists around similar themes and paradigms.
> We are interested in papers on social mobility, ethnicity,
> intermarriage, migrant organisations, transnationalism and
> opportunity structures of receiving societies. Comparisons in time
> and space are especially welcomed.
>
> Organisation
>
> The workshop is an initiative of the Institut fur Migration und
> Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS) of the University of Osnabruck and the
> Center for the History of Migrants (CGM), an interdisciplinary joint
> venture of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Leiden University,
> Nijmegen University and the International Institute of Social History
> (IISH) in Amsterdam.
>
> Applications
>
> The papers will be discussed in a small, high quality 2-days workshop
> with maximum 20 people. Papers will be distributed before the
> conference. Those interested are asked to send abstracts of 500 words
> on themes that relate directly to a position paper which will be
> published on the websites of both the IMIS (http://www.imis.uni-
> osnabrueck.de/) and the CGM. http://www.iisg.nl/CGM). After the dead
> line of the abstracts (November 1 2002) the organisers will select
> the most interesting proposals and invite the authors to the workshop
> in June 2003. In principle all travel (economy, 2nd class) and
> accommodation costs will be covered by the organisation. Afterwards
> the papers that fit in the overall problematique will be published in
> an English language edited volume.
>
> Time schedule
>
> The conference will take place in Osnabruck from 19-21 June 2003. The
> deadline for applications and abstracts is November 1 2002. The dead
> line for the papers (6,000-9,000 words) is April 1 2003.
> Information: for further information, please contact Leo Lucassen
> ([log in to unmask]), Klaus J. Bade or Jochen Oltmer
> ([log in to unmask]).
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